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Preservatives in Food
The routine practice under which all samples of milk, butter, margarine
and cheese submitted to the Public Analyst, are examined for the presence of a
preservative was continued throughout the year and in no instance was a preservative
found to be present.
Frozen Egg
During the year 4 samples of frozen egg, contaminated by Salmonella
organisms, were submitted for bacteriological examination after pasteurisation and
satisfactory reports were received thereon.
The pasteurisation plant concerned is installed at a large local firm of
provision merchants and I have given permission for regular consignments of
contaminated frozen egg to be processed thereat under my supervision.
Ice Cream
During the year, 20 applications for registration for the sale of ice cream
were approved and 30 premises were removed from the register upon ceasing the sale
of ice cream.
At the end of the year there were 142 registered premises in the Borough.
233 inspections of these premises were made during the year and in 12 instances
notices were served concerning insanitary conditions.
19 samples of ice cream were submitted to the Methylene Blue test and
graded as follows:-
Grade 1 13
Grade 2 3
Grade 3 1
Grade 4 2
Each of the three samples graded 3 and 4 were followed immediately by
further samples being taken from the two manufacturers concerned; these samples
were reported as Grade 1.
Food Poisoning
Notifications (corrected) totalled seventeen.
Salmonella organisms were isolated in six instances but the source of
infection in each case was undiscovered.